Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… Tate Gallery, Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED. Image George Bickham the Younger, ‘Satire on the Westminster Election of May 1741’, The British Museum, 1868,0808.3663, 1741. Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The ghost of a rotten borough, … actors, traders, writers and prostitutes. Covent Garden was also the place where the rowdy hustings for the Westminster elections occurred, inspiring many satirical artists. Places > Institutions Mots-clés Coffeehouses Commerce Market … (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), chapter 2. Covent Garden was the site for the hustings in the fractious parliamentary elections for the borough constituency of Westminster. Westminster had a broad franchise for the eighteenth century – the …
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